Wholphin

SF360 Film+Club will be presenting Dispatches from Dimension X, a showcase of work by Wholphin favorite, Carson Mell, next Thursday, August 28th at Club Mezzanine in San Francisco.  

Take equal parts country-rock star, science-fiction writer, undersexed adolescent and uncomfortable malcontent and you’ve merely cracked the door into the world of Carson Mell. Carson will be in attendance to present his animated short films and music videos, and to read from his illustrated novel, Saguaro, about the life and times of ex-rock star Bobby Bird, the fictional protagonist of many of Carson’s short films, which can be seen on Wholphin 1, 3, 5 and the upcoming 7. 

After Carson appeared with screenings of Chonto at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, the requests came pouring in for more. So here’s your chance, as Elston Gunn of Ain’t It Cool News said, to “hop on the cusp of an American original.”

Tickets are $8 with an RSVP to sf360@sffs.org or $12 at the door. Doors open at 7PM. Screening starts at 7:30PM. Mezzanine is located at 444 Jessie Street in San Francisco. 

Due to tropical storm Fay, the Wholphin will be screening at Sweat Records in Miami will now take place on Monday, August 25th. The lineup for “Music Movie Monday” will still be a selection of shorts including a documentary about a band of Scottish 9-year-olds singing “Satan Rocks” at their county fair; an animated short about an aging rock star and his heroin-addicted carnival monkey; David Byrne covering old country songs in an abandoned storage facility; the effect of Terry Bozzio’s instructional drumming videos on Morrocan youth; and much much more. Stay after for a live crying competition!

Monday, August 25, 8PM
Sweat Records
5505 NE 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33137 

Los Angeles - Tomorrow Tuesday night - 8 pm - Ben Russell’s traveling 16mm bonanza - stark trees, Lightning Bolt, Richard Pryor, Dubai, live projection tricks and more - this is for YOU, young kids….

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Blasting out of Chicago, experimental filmmaker Ben Russell makes vibrant,
“tryppy” films as emotional as they are beautiful to sink in to. His Black
and White Trypps subjects range from elliptical trees in high contrast to a
crowd at a Lightning Bolt show to a Richard Pryor performance blown out
visually. Live at the theater, Russell will also perform The American War
(#10), a 16mm double-projection live performance involving film loops, mixer
feedback, a delay pedal, and a homemade light-sensitive synthesizer.

WARNING: This show contains visuals that may be harmful to those with
epilepsy.

August 19
8pm

Tickets - $13/$9 for Cinefamily members

The Cinefamily @ The Silent Movie Theatre
611 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655-2510

Co-presented by Cinefamily and Cinemad

Cinefamily runs the great Silent Movie Theatre, with an incredible program
of new and retro films.
Cinefamily.org for full calendar

Cinemad is a zine created in 1998, covering avant-garde, experimental,
underground and other films that terms don’t fit.
A Cinemad anthology book and DVD is coming soon.
Iblamesociety.com for more info and interviews.

San Franciscans: Scott Prendergast’s first feature film, Kabluey, will be opening at the Opera Plaza Cinema on Friday, August 1st. If you’ve seen Wholphin No 1, and therefore The Delicious, you know exactly who I’m talking about and are probably holding up you’re right hand and jubilantly making little “nang nang naang” noises right now. Kabluey, a film that Prendergast calls a “melancho-medy,” is the story of a slacker uncle who moves in with his sister-in-law and two nephews while his brother, their father, is away fighting in Iraq. I haven’t seen it yet, but have my calendar marked and no doubt that it will be just as hilarious, insightful and endearing as all of Scott’s work. 

If you manage to get a spot for opening night you’ll have the added pleasure of being greeted by the director himself. And in the meantime, you can watch the trailer and find out more about the film and other screening locations here.